Cultivator



(No Model.) 2 Sheets -sheet 2:

' W. S. TEMPLIN.

CULTIVATOR.

No. 885,848. Patented July 8, 1888.

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I W I W v 1/ v 5 8% I JWIJ, Attorney FFlQEO \VILLIAM S. TEMPLIN, OFROSSVILLFJ, KANSAS.

CULTIVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,646, dated July 3,1888.

Application filed October 52"., 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. TEMPLIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rossville, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cultivators; andldo declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to cultivators. and the improvements will befully understood from the following description and claim when taken inconnection with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a sulky, showing myimprovements attached; and Figs. 2, S, and 4are views of modification ofshovels.

In the accompanying drawings, to better illustrate my improvements, Ihave shown a sulky having the axle in two sections; but this form ofsulky forms no part of my present invention.

deferring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates the sulky, and B Bthe cultivators. These cultivators are each composed of two beams, a b,of metal or other suit-able material,

being securedat their forward ends to an eye, which is designed to beconnected with the axle by a swivel or universal joint. These beamsdiverge rearwardly and are suitably braced by means of the angle-bracesG, and the said beams are suitablyperforated, for a purpose which willbe presently explained.

D and E indicate the plows, which are secured to the outer end of eachof the beams a b, and one of the longer beams, b, and one of the shorterbeams, a, are each provided with a handle, which is rendered adjustableby means of a link, as will be presently described.

The standards of these shovels or points are provided with a number ofperforations at their upper ends, as indicated at (Z, whereby the samemay be adjustably attached to the rear end of the said standards, so asto raise or lower the same with relation to the beam.

F indicates a brace one end of which is forked, as indicated at c, andis secured to the stand ards, as shown. The opposite ends of thesebraces F are provided with a plurality of perforations, f, whereby theconnection of the said brace with the beam may be made ad Serial No.253,085. (No model.)

by means of the braces connecting theirstandards with the beams.

It will be seen that the plows in Fig. 1 are arranged to throw the earthin opposite directions--that is to say, each cultivator has its blade onopposite sides and one in advance of the other, and the rear ends oftheir blades lap each other in a vertical plane. This machine isparticularly adapted for cultivating corn, and is designed to work bothsides ofa row at one operation. It will be observed that I have a rightand left hand cultivator or plow and that the same may be reversed intheir attachments to the axle.

Instead of the plow shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, I may and sometimesprefer to use the forms of plows illustrated in Figs. 2, 3,

and 4, the standards of which are of angular form, being carriedoutwardly and thence upwardly,where they are perforated for adj iistableattachment to the beams. These shovels are made right and left, and aredesigned to be used interchangeably, so that they may throw inwardly andoutwardly.

Wit-h amachine of this character young corn and other plants may becultivated without any liability of injury. In operation I place theplow which throws to the right on righthand end of the sulky-axle andthe otherplow on the left end. The plows can then be run up close to therow of corn at the first cultivation, thus cutting out all weeds closeto the roots of the crop, and also take away the greater portion ofthehard soil. Ithen reverse theposition of the plows at the nextcultivation, placing the right-hand plow on the lefthaud end of thesulky, and vice versa,wll1en they will throw the earth in a pulverizedform around the roots of the said crop.

Thefront plow is of a general rectangular form, or, in other words, asimilar form having l The plows D E, having horizontal shares to theshare and landside at right angles to each other,with the share lyingfiat on the ground, in practice thus cultivating the soil the entire 5width of thefurrow at a uniform depth,which,

taken in connection with the reversed position of the plows on the samebeam, prevents side draft of the entire cultivator much more than in acultivator of the ordinary type.

The rear Cultivators, as more fully shown on Sheet 2 of the drawings,have a mold-board of approximately butterfly shape. The use of these twoforms of plows in combination on the same beam is of great importance.

Having described this invention, What I claim isrun parallel with thesurface of the ground, and the standards extended to form landsidesrising above said shares and at right angles t here- 20 to, as shown, incombination with the beams and perforated braces, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. TEMPLIN.

Witnesses:

EDGAR F. VAUGHN, JOHN BAUM.

